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C. C. HINKLE.

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CHARLES C. HINKLE, HAZLETON, INDIANA.

FENCE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,932, dated September 9, 1884.

Application filed February 29, 1884.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES GULBERsoN HINKLE, of Hazleton, in the county of Gibson and State of Indiana, have invented a new and l5 useful Improvement in Fences, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to portable board 1o fences; and the invention consists of the con- 2o strip, i, is nailed to their other end. The strips f g h are nailed flat against the boards; but the strip i is nailed with its edge against the boards. The boards a d are made to project slightly beyond the others at one end of the 2 5 panel, to forni tongues j ,while at the other end ofthe panel they are cut away to form seats k between the strips f g, in order that the tongues j of one panel may be set in the seats k of another,

(No modch) and the strips 'i are made shorter than the strips f g l1I at the lower end, so that they shall not touch the ground, as the others do, but shall allow the panel to be supported at that end by the tongues j resting ou the next panel. The object of this is to make a frictional joint between the two panels. The fence thus rests on the ends of the strips f g h, and is to beheld upright by braces Z, one to a panel, each oonsisting of astrip, which is bolted to the Viiat side of the strip 'i by a horizontal bolt, m, and has its foot secured to the ground by a stake, n, passing through the same. If desired. two or more braces may be used to a panel, and

Vthese may be arranged on both sides thereof.

The fence-panel having at one end opposed side strips, f g, and between said strips sockets or seat-s k, and at the other end an edgewisedisposed side strip, t', and tongues j, together with a brace, Z, bolted to said strip and stak ed to the ground, substantially as and for" the purpose set forth.

CHARLES C. HINKLE.

"Witnesses:

AARON TRIPPET, G. H. KNAUR. 

